Psychiatry Research
Volume 144, Issue 2 , Pages 109-116 , 15 November 2006

Cognitive retraining for organizational impairment in obsessive–compulsive disorder

  • Ulrike Buhlmann

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry/OCD Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 185 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 617 726 5374; fax: +1 617 643 3080.
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  • Thilo Deckersbach

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry/OCD Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 185 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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  • Iris Engelhard

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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  • Laura M. Cook

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry/OCD Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 185 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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  • Scott L. Rauch

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry/OCD Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 185 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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  • Norbert Kathmann

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Psychology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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  • Sabine Wilhelm

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry/OCD Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 185 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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  • Cary R. Savage

      Affiliations

    • Hoglund Brain Imaging Center and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA

Received 14 March 2005 ,Revised 26 August 2005 ,Accepted 27 October 2005.

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Psychiatry Research
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